Quotes

Omdat wij zelf erg van quotes houden, hier een verzameling mooie en inspirerende quotes:

“It wasn’t that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn’t like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don’t care about the elephant because it’s only one thing when you’ve been thinking about a million others.”
– Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To him…a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy,a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create–so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
-Pearl Buck

“One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.”
– Charles Schwab

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue–you sell him a whole new life.”
– Christopher Darlington Morley [Parnassus on Wheels, 1917

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…’”
– Isaac Asimov

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.   We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
–  Albert Einstein

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
– Anne Bronte

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“There was a time that I cursed the curse that lay upon my veins.

“Wild spirit chained
Flaming fire quenched over and over
’til it can consume no more
’til it can arise no more
with passions that blaze within my soul…

I’ve cursed my curse
and then I realized –

I’ve also cursed my gift.”

“Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence. Without sensitivity to everything – to one’s own sorrows; to the sorrow of a group of people, of a race; to the sorrow of everything that is – , unless one feels and has the feeling highly sensitivized, one cannot possibly solve any problem. And we have many problems, not only at the physical level, the economic level, the social level, but also at the deeper levels of one’s own being – problems that apparently we are not capable of solving. I am not talking of the mathematical problems, or the problems of mechanical inventions, but of human problems: of our sorrows, of despair, of the narrow spirit of the mind, of the shallowness of one’s thinking, of the constant repetitive boredom of life, the routine of going to office every day for forty or thirty years. And the many problems that exist, both consciously and unconsciously, make the mind dull, and therefore the mind loses this extraordinary sensitivity. And when we lose sensitivity, we lose intelligence.”
– J. Krishnamurti The Collected Works Volume XV

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
– Albert Einstein

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
– Albert Einstein

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
– Albert Einstein

“I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’ ‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’ ‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’ ‘But it’s worse for me.’ ‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’ ‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close

“Kinderen leren van wat de volwassene ís, niet van wat hij zegt!”
– Carl Jung

“… toch ben ik de reden van mijn groei, geloof ik.
Ik beteken mijzelf, een korte schaduw, een toeval in het licht der aarde.”
– Hugo Claus

“I go where others do not,
so that I can find myself.”
–onbekend

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world.
It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
–L.R. Knost

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
–onbekend

“I put on an act sometimes and people think I’m insensitive.
Really it’s like a kind of armor because I’m to sensitive.
If there are 200 people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me,
I’ve got to get out.”
–Marlon Brando

“I can grow up to do so many great things.
Give me a chance now to learn how to use my gift,
before I lose it forever.”
–Angie French

“Every child is gifted.
They just unwrap their packages at different times.”
–onbekend

“Wondering is the beginning of wisdom.”
–Greek proverb

“I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse  to do something that I can do.”
–Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen or even touched-
they must be felt with the heart.”
–Helen Keller

“Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren’t really that important in the long term.”
– Ted Danson

“We could never learn to be brave and patient
if there were only joy in the world.”
–Helen Keller

“Be brave enough to live creatively.”
–Alan Alda

“Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials,
is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing.”
–Madeline Hunter

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer

“Al die energie,
ideeën en creativiteit
in één persoon

die mensen die dat “vervelend”
of “te druk” noemen

zijn gewoon
te traag van begrip

Om te snappen
hoe waardevol jij bent”
-Chrisje

“They say I have ADHD
They just don’t understand…
Oh look, a squirrel!”
-Onbekend

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
–Walter Elias Disney

“The past can hurt.
But the way I see it,
you can either run from it or
LEARN from it.”
-The lion king

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole live believing that it is stupid.”
– Albert Einstein

“ADHD is not a disability,
it’s a different ability.”
-Onbekend

“The truth is,
there is no such thing as “normal”,
there are just a series of spectrums
on which we all fall
and how “normal” we are
is largely determined by how well
our strengths and weaknesses
match the social norms of the
times we live in.”
-R. Boyce

“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wondering.”
-Steven Wright

“I don’t suffer from dyslexia, i live with it and i work with it. I suffer from the ignorance of people who think they know what I can and cannot do.”
-Erica Cook

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
– Helen Keller

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
– Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
– Helen Keller

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Onlu through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
–Helen Keller

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
– Hellen Keller

“Education is the most powerful weaponwhich you can use to change the world.”
–Nelson Mandela

“We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.”
– Helen Keller

“Walking in the dark with a friend is better than walking alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. ”
– Helen Keller

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”
– Helen Keller

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”
– Helen Keller

” De waarheid komt voort uit een gedachtewisseling tussen vrienden.”
-Onbekend

“Alleen liefde kan de ziekte ‘angst’ genezen”
-Onbekend

“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard

“I’m irritated by my own writing. I’m violinist whose ear is true but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
–Nelson Mandela

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
–Nelson Mandela

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
–Nelson Mandela

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
–Nelson Mandela

“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
-Nelson Mandela

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“If there’s no love, what then?”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but
myself . . .””
– C.S. Lewis

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
– May Sarton

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
– Gilles Deleuze

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
— Tom Clancy